tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post1137738406930915127..comments2019-02-21T12:16:50.055-08:00Comments on The Misadventures Of Super Librarian: #TBRChallenge 2019: Wendy Goes On A Spice Briefs BenderWendyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485867264936716806noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-83774364882441980822019-01-19T16:11:08.214-08:002019-01-19T16:11:08.214-08:00Lorene: Seconded. I know it was likely &quot;a mon...Lorene: Seconded. I know it was likely &quot;a money thing&quot; - but it&#39;s unlikely I&#39;m going to continue to go on Harlequin buying benders when the books are locked down in the BookShout app. It&#39;s cutting off their nose to spite their face - which, really, I guess I should be used to from the publishing industry by now but it&#39;s so infuriating.Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12485867264936716806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-86898601725105440372019-01-19T09:49:47.078-08:002019-01-19T09:49:47.078-08:00I&#39;m still angry at Harlequin&#39;a ebook decis...I&#39;m still angry at Harlequin&#39;a ebook decision.<br /><br />First -- they close the Carina Press site&#39;s book purchase option, then they change the Harlequin site.<br /><br />I used to go on book-buying sprees, but that is over.lorenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879128235052988897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-20883755726639591492019-01-18T20:25:13.227-08:002019-01-18T20:25:13.227-08:00Dorine: Yeah, it wasn&#39;t the smoothest of landi...Dorine: Yeah, it wasn&#39;t the smoothest of landings. I saw your review for the Thomas story! Off to fully read it now. Tonight is for catching up on my blog reading.<br /><br />S: I know, right? I knocked 4 stories off the digital TBR pile. So that&#39;s good.<br /><br />AL: OMG SO MUCH RAGE!!! BECAUSE OF COURSE SHE HAS A G-D BABY BOY!!!!! UGH!!!!! I may have said &quot;you&#39;ve got to be effin&#39; kidding me?!?&quot; out loud when I read that bit. Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12485867264936716806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-70641495145533869312019-01-17T17:57:42.083-08:002019-01-17T17:57:42.083-08:00Jill, I love the term &quot;effortlessly contempor...Jill, I love the term &quot;effortlessly contemporary&quot; and boy, how I miss romances about regular folk. Yes, it&#39;s nice to read about people who don&#39;t spend half the night worrying about finances (like most of us), but there&#39;s only so much suspension of disbelief on behalf of wealthy people--most of the ones we see and hear about are total monsters, not romance material.<br /><br />Wendy, as I said on twitter, what an enraging pile of steaming shit that last one was. Not only the hero--that&#39;s more than bad ENOUGH--but an epilogue with a bouncing baby boy? after KILLING OF A WIFE AND BABY DAUGHTER??? ::setting fire to everything::aztecladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14857872357667370906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-39564067518653638022019-01-17T02:01:30.730-08:002019-01-17T02:01:30.730-08:00Wendy, think positive! A bunch less stories on the...Wendy, think positive! A bunch less stories on the pile!S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12010038911071421007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-65660543856490005012019-01-16T18:16:58.852-08:002019-01-16T18:16:58.852-08:00Yikes - that last one is a doozy. I&#39;m with you...Yikes - that last one is a doozy. I&#39;m with you on needing short this month. Thanks for suggesting The Valentine&#39;s Curse last month because I really didn&#39;t have much to choose from in my TBR. It worked out good. :)Dorinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02091485214243243002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-12841678259275524012019-01-16T17:39:22.470-08:002019-01-16T17:39:22.470-08:00Jill: Oooh, that Waite story sounds really good. O...Jill: Oooh, that Waite story sounds really good. Off to Amazon as soon as I finish typing this comment...<br /><br />Rowena: Short erotic reads have that effect on me, I literally read these one after another on a Saturday morning. I just should have stopped after #3...<br /><br />Vassiliki: Yeah, it wasn&#39;t good. I like to &quot;feel good&quot; at the end of romance and...I didn&#39;t feel good after this one. Frankly, I was annoyed. Oh well. Can&#39;t win &#39;em all!Wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12485867264936716806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-21262346544910871002019-01-16T17:09:49.959-08:002019-01-16T17:09:49.959-08:00OMG! That last book sounds horrid. I could bear re...OMG! That last book sounds horrid. I could bear reading it as historical fiction but as historical romance fiction - Yeahbutnah.Vassilikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14186790308471036478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-46006621290720168382019-01-16T14:00:47.881-08:002019-01-16T14:00:47.881-08:00Holy cow, I would have been drunk if I read throug...Holy cow, I would have been drunk if I read through books 2 and 4 on this list of reviews. Yikes, both of those books sound like all kinds of yuck!Rowenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15472559027348735571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350052669699480502.post-87331524801744528072019-01-16T13:17:53.396-08:002019-01-16T13:17:53.396-08:00Oof, that sounds like a rough landing.
I read two...Oof, that sounds like a rough landing.<br /><br />I read two Christmasy novellas for the challenge. B/c I didn&#39;t have much time to read until after Christmas ;-) There was &quot;A Dangerous Nativity&quot; by Caroline Wakefield which was a sweet Regency, charming but not super memorable.<br /><br />The one I really enjoyed was called &quot;The Best Worst Holiday Party&quot; by Olivia Waite. This was really just a distilled &quot;meet cute.&quot; Very fast read with the promise of something at the more for the characters by the end. But I didn&#39;t feel like it was missing anything. <br /><br />The heroine is training to be a sommemlier. The hero is a forensic accountant who is feeling a bit listless. The hero&#39;s boss accidentally spills wine on hero&#39;s tie at the Christmas party. Boom, time for a meet cute with someone who knows how to deal with wine stains. <br /><br />I think what I really enjoyed about this is it was what I call &quot;effortlessly contemporary.&quot; It&#39;s a term I made up to describe romance and romance adjacent books that feel like they really do exist in the modern everyday world I know. There&#39;s a feel of diversity among the characters. The heroines aren&#39;t 30 year old virgins (not without a really good reason). No one is a cupcake baker or Navy SEAL or Greek shipping magnate. Characters in their 20s aren&#39;t making jokes about &#39;Who Shot JR?&#39; or Yoko Ono. <br />I think it&#39;s hard for writers to pull off sometimes, but it&#39;s easy to spot when it goes horribly wrong. And I don&#39;t mind &quot;fantasy contemporary&quot; sometimes, but I really love stories about ordinary folks too.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15364220221782320521noreply@blogger.com